Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819
As from an ancestral oakTwo empty ravens sound their clarion,Yell by yell, and croak by croak,When they scent the noonday smokeOf fresh human carrion:--
As two gibbering night-birds flitFrom their bowers of deadly yewThrough the night to frighten it,When the moon is in a fit,And the stars are none, or few:--
As a shark and dog-fish waitUnder an Atlantic isle,For the negro-ship, whose freightIs the theme of their debate,Wrinkling their red gills the while--
Are ye, two vultures sick for battle,Two scorpions under one wet stone,Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle,Two crows perched on the murrained cattle,Two vipers tangled into one.
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